THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA.
ALLIES' LOSSES
IN 1 MILLIONS
Estimate Made by German
Military Critic.
SACRIFICES ON THE SOMME
Cen. Von LiniinQen Alone Inflicted
Lone Of Over 62,000 Ninety
Divitlont On the Somme
Front Annihilated.
Berlin (by wireless to Sayvlll).
British and French division with a
total of more than one million men
have been virtually annihilated in llie
Soniuie battle, aaya the military critic
of the Oversea Newi Agency.
According to figure from Swim
sources, an given by the ns agency,
the Russian louses from June 1 to Oc
tuber 2 were about one million men.
The new agency ' military critic
writes:
"The heavy sacrifices made by the
British and French for the recapture
of each io,ua re yard on the Somme U
proved by the fact that In three and
one-half months about ntnrty fresh
divisions were virtually annihilated, no
that It was nec't-'toary to withdraw
them forever.
(Ninety divisions represents a total
of considerably more than one million
men. There are about 12,000 men in a
French division and 19,000 in a British
division.)
Disappeared Completely.
"These divisions disappeared com-
liletely from battle. Fifty-five divia
lons In consequence of their great
losses were able to engage In combat
only twice, 15 divisions three tlmws,
and only one was able to engage In
combat four times. Four division
had suffered o severely after their
eeeond engagement that it was neces
sary to send thorn to quiet sectors, but
on critical days they were again
thrown in."
Turning to the eastern front, the
critic writes:
"The Fourth Siberian corps, from
August 31 to September 3, lost be
tween 13.000 to lt.ouO men before
Bubnov. The Tenth Siberian IUflo
division, which was attached to the
Fourth Corps, lost between 5,000 and
6.0U0 men, near Korjtniza. The Fourth
llille Division, between August 31, and
September 20 lost betwi-en 6,000 and
7.uoo men near Szelov, and the Second
Kitle Division in three days lost at the
came place between 4,000 and 5,000
men.
"From the beginning of the offensive
178 divisions, partly new and partly
brought up to strength recently, were
launched a.ainst the German position
on the Somme," the critic coiitinu-s.
Russian Total Losses.
Referring to the total losses of the
Russians, he says:
"A Russian olliclal at Kiev, accord
ing to a Swiss raper, numbers the
Russian casualties from June 1 to Oc
tober 2 at T6.0H0 oflirers and 92, juO
of other ranks, or l,uo).0i0 iu round
figures. These gigantic figures are
comprehensible only If the great Rus
sian losses before separate sectors on
our front are considered. Thus, the
army group nf General Von Llnslngen,
which holds one-sixth of the eastern
front, Indicted losses In the month of
September on the Russians which are
calrula'ed by a responsible authority
at 62.ooO to MO'"1'"). These figures
probably are below the actual lo-ses.
Corresponding report or given from
the army sector of Cen. Von Itoehm
F.rmolll by a war correspondent. There
It was nenrtalned that the Siberian
corps, whlrh lire the best in the Rus
nion army, were simply annihilated.
Among the prl-'om-r from one rorp?,
which was stil called Siberian, 75 per
cent, were Southern Russians and 25
per cent. Tartars. Jews, or other.
Some non-commissioned officers de
clared that nearly all the Siberian
rceiments had lot not only their
active strength, but their reserves."
FRICK BUYS REMBRANDT.
Pay 1250,000 For "Old Woman Reflect
ing Over Le:ture."
New York. Henry C. Frlck has
bought Rembrandt's painting "An Old
Woman Reflecting Over the Lecture,"
for $2"0,nOO. Tills makes the fourth
Rembrandt In Mr. Frlck' art collec
tion, and Is ald to bring the amount
he has spent for art works In the last
j car up to approximately $2,300,000.
SHOOTS DAUGHTER'S SUITOR.
Former Baseball Pitcher Then Kills
Himself.
Canton, Ohio. After courteously
greeting Victor Roderlrk, 19-years-nld
Kiiitor for hi daughter's hand, In his
home, W. G. lirlMson, formerly a well
known baseball pitcher, shot the youth
and then committed suicide here.
Ilrltfson ohJ"cted to the youth's atten
tion to his daughter, but had seeming
ly submitted.
FARMER KILLS DAUGHTER.
CJrl Had Refused To Work In Field.
' Father Then End Life.
Alexandria, La. Charles M. Ben
nete, a farmer of MeUler, La., shot
and killed hi 19 year-old daughter
when she refused to go to work In the
fWds. After the girl's death Bennett
committed suicide. .
HAS CLINIC FOR EUGENICS.
Cleveland Hospital Will Determine Fit
nee Of Couple.
Cleveland. Dan Cupid received a
eethsrk when It was announced that
Mount RInal Hospital. Cleveland'
newest medical Institution, would opet)
clln'c f ir eugenics. Marr'a'tes guar
antoed to be happy and a better race
of Cleveland Is the object of th
clinic. Advice and pxnntlnatlun wfl
Ik? given prospective brides and bride
groom to determine their eticnlc fit
BBS.
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SIZE OF LOAF
Department of Labor Announces
Its Report.
INGREDIENTS COSTS MORE
Instinct Cited Where Price Wa
Railed and Loaf Reduced At the
Same Time In Seme Of
the Cities.
Washington The result of the
recent investigation Into the Increased
bread price la forty-five centers was
made public by the Ixpartment of La
bor. The report tate that of 210
varieties of bread retailing at fifteen
ounces for five cents May 15, but four
teen varieties were selling for the
same price September 15. Many
bakers met advanced prices In raw
materials by discontinuing whole
sals trade substituting "presumably
cheaper" brand of bread and dispens
ing with returns of stale bread.
On the comparative basis of May
and September prices It was found
that In September wheat was 34 per
cent, higher, floour 37 per cent, higher
and bread 31 per cent, higher. The
percentage of increase In wheat prices
was continually more than the Increase
in bread prices.
In May the retail margin over the
wholesale price of flour was $2.14; In
September, $1 90. The retail price of
bread before baking In May was 0 6
cent; In September, 0.62 cent.
In several cities the weight of loaf
dropped from 16 to 124 ounces. In
stances are cited where the price was
increased and the weight decreased at
the same time. Rut the general prac
tice was to advance the weight In
minor ratio to the pVlre advance.
INTERFERENCE WITH MAIL.
Radical Changes Promised By th Brit
ish and French.
Washington Radical changes In
the treatment of mails on neutral
hips are promised In the reply of the
British and French governments to
the American protest against Inter
ference with mails. The changes,
while short of an abandonment of the
contention of the right to search for
Information of value to the enemy,
are regarded by tie Allies as sufficient
to meet the wishes of the Tinted
States.
Otherwise the two notes which are
now under consideration at the State
Department are devoted to an exten
sive academic discussion of the whole
subject of the treatment of mails In
time of war, with voluminous quota
tions from the history of the American
Civil War and of other wars up to
da'.
TO LOOK FOR U-BOAT BASE.
Destroyer Squadron Under Admiral
Cleaves.
Washington. A complete survey of
the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts would be
made by naval vessels to determine
whether or not any belligerent war
ship has a base on American soil, It
was announced by Secretary of the
Navy I'anlels. Th Secretary sta'ed
that he had no otllclal Information Indi
cating that such a base or bases had
been e-tab'ished, but that circum
stantial evidence had come to him
f'om other sources which made it
advisab'e to send ships of the fleet
al'tn? the shore.
BETTER PRICES TO FARMERS.
Producer Get 27.8 Per Cnt. More
Than a Year Ago.
Washington. Trices of farm prod
ucts rontlnue to rl-e. Producers were
being paid 27.6 per cent, more October
1 than a year ago, the Department of
Agrlrulture has announred In Its
I):onth!y statement of the level of
prices on principal crops.
That level Increased 1.3 per rent.
during Septmber compared with a de-
creae of about 3 per rent, during that
month In the last eight year. Octo
ber 1, two years ago, prlcos were 19 9
per rent, lower than on that date this
year, and the average for lght years
on October 1 was 23 I per cent, lower.
DEUTSCHLAND TO COME AGAIN.
Captain Koenlg Say He I Preparing
For Second Trip.
Amsterdam. According to th Ham
burger Narhrirhlen, Capt. Taul
Koenlg. of th German submarine
Deutschland, replying to a telegram of i
congratulations from his native town
on his voyage to the t'nltcd States nnd
return, said he was busy with prepara
tions for a second trip across the
ocean, which would soon begin.
PRICES UP 25 PER CENT.
Commodities' Cost Increased Since
War Bejan, Says Dun's.
New York. Commodity prices have
Increased 2i per rent, slnre the out
break of the war, according to Dun'
Review, which announced that In Dun's
Index number the aggregate quotation
of a large II t of food, clothing, metal
and other article was ir2.35."i on Oc
tober 1, against 1120,740 on August 1,
1914.
BORDER SICKNESS LESS.
Percentage Among Guard For the
Week Only 1.91.
Wachlngton. The V.'nr Department
announced that th perceutase of sick
amon? militia on the bonier for the
we k Jut ended wan 1 91. with three
ieaths, ns compared to 2.25 and reveii
loaths for the previous week. The
-eroer.tase of sick nmotiff the rciiu'urs
as 3.23 wl'h five death as compared
o 3 42 and five deaths for the previous
neck.
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POOR OL' MOTHER EARTH
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Fine. AS FOR
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Rural Credits Act Misused in
Large Belt.
PUBLIC MEN DRAWN IN
Stock Sold Fer Banks Alleged To Be
Bogus Governors and Congress
men Mads Unwilling Parties
To Scheme.
Washington. Seeking to head off
what they believe Is developing Into
one of the greatest financial frauds the
I'nlted States has known, the Federal
Farm I-oan Board asked the aid of the
Department of Justice.
Clear acrofs the continent, in a
stripe of States from Virginia to Cali
fornia, the board reported to the Jus
tice Department, organizations either
deliberately fraudulent or at best Il
legal, have sprung up for the purpose
of defrauding farmers through the lat
ter' Ignorance of the new Rural
Credits Act. In one single Instance,
It Is said, the farmers have been vic
timized to an aggregate of 1350,000.
Public Men Drawn In.
Governors of States and members
of Congress have been made unwilling
parties to some of these illegal opera
tions, it Is said, th promoters taking
advantage of them, as well as of the
farmers. Prominent men In all walks
of life have been Involved, their names
being used In some cases simply to
lend re-pectablllty.
The board believes It will be uble
to prosecute succes.fully. Some time
ago it announced a ruling that no pro
posed joint ptock land bank will be
chartered If It has spent money for
promotion. This was designed to hold
the expense of operation down to a
minimum in order that the Interest
rates to farmers may be the lowest
possible. In the face of this ruling, It
Is said, promoters have continued to
sell stock in proposed land banks and
to take part of the proceeds for their
own services.
Failed Before Seeking Charter.
One of these concerns failed before
it could even have applied for a char
ter, but It had sold stock to the
amount of several hundred thousand
dollars to farmers. In many cases the
stork has been sold with the under
standing that the company Is to apply
for a charter under the new Federal
law, when there has been no such In
tention on the part of the promoters.
The board would not make public
th names of the concern to whlrh It
Is calling the Justice Department's at
tention, and refused to give their loca
tions, save that by co-Incidence, they
have appeared In the belt of States
across the middle of the country, com
prising some of the niort prosperous
farming sections.
NO HOPE FOR EARLY PEACE.
Understanding Impossible Now, Says
Cologne Gazette.
Amsterdam. Premier Asqulth's
recent speech in Commons hold out
no hope for an early peace, atd the
Cologne Gazette. "So long as he
drawls out mendacious phrases about
the menaced independence of small
nations, an understanding with him Is
impossible," said tho Gazette. "So
long as British Ministers do not rec
orrnlze the uselessness of predatory
war, the nation will continue to
bleed."
GIVES PALM TO WASHINGTON.
Commissioner Nebit Says City Lead
Country In Insurance.
Washington. Insurance Commis
sioner Neibit, in an addre.-s to the
Washington representative- of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, de
clared that Washington people carry
more Insurance than the people of any
other community in the United States.
He also stated that the people of the
I'nlted State carry more insurance
than the people of all the countries ol
Europe combined.
"INDIAN" KILLS SISTER.
MakeCellev Redskin Fires Shotgun
At Four-Year-Old.
Sharon, Pa. Playing Indian at bis
fa'her's home, Ciernvillr, I'nnl How
ard, 9 years old, Mew off the head of
his sister. I.averne. four years old.
The children were playing In r ho din
ing room wlun Paul took his father's
sholKun from a rack nnd pointed It at
hLi baby U.-!er. A moment later thorn
was a loud report and when the par
ents cnt'ted the rt;otn tliey fcuuj
Laverii" dead on the fl wr.
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SCENTS
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BANKS ARE SETTING
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RECORD
New Mark for Resources and
Deposits to Be Shown.
BIG EASTERN CENTERS LOSE
Treasury Officials Say Returns From
National lank Call Will 8how
Wider Distribution Of Money
Than Ever Before.
Washington. A new high record for
resource and deposits and a wider
distribution of money than ever be
fore will be shown by complete re
turns from the national bank call of
September 12, In the opinion ot Treas
ury officials, after examination of
figures reported by SS reserve cities
and country bank In several States.
Most of the big Eastern money centers
have lost materially In deposits since
the call of. May 1, these figures show,
and there has been more than an off
setting increase In smaller cities and
In country district.
The decrease In New York City
since May 1 amounted to $222,000,000;
In Boston It was $36,000,000, and In
Philadelphia, $13,000,000. San Fran
cisco reported a gain of more than
$35,000,000; Kansas City nearly $24,
000,000; Pittsburgh, $21,000,000; Cleve
land, $18,000,000; Omaha. $14,500,000;
Houston, $8,000,000, and Chicago more
than $7,000,000, while gains of more
than $2,000,000 were made also In
Indiunapolls, Columbus, Denver, Los
Angeles. Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Rich
mond, Wichita, St. Joseph, Baltimore,
Dalian. San Antonio, Detroit, Seattle,
Lincoln, Atlanta, Washington and
Oklahoma City.
Increases in country deposits are
shown In the case of each of 10 States
from which returns are complete. Ohio
leads this list, with country banks
showing a deposit increase of $26,000,-
000.
Comptroller Williams declared In a
statement that the withdrawal of de
posits from the larger centers had not
Interfered with business growth there,
and that "the unprecedented accumu-
atlons of funds and banking credits In
the other cities and towns throughout
the country, and especially In the
country banks, is significant, and is
Imparting a business confidence and a
degree of security, stability and
optimism throughout the length and
breadth of the United States which
has rarely been experienced by any
country.
POTATO TRUST CONVICTED.
Blacklisting Committee Found Guilty
Under Sherman Act.
Bof ton Five offices of the Aroo
stook (Maine) Potato Shippers' Asso
ciation were found guilty under the
Sherman act of conspiracy In restraint
of trade. They are: Carl C. King, of
Caribou, Maine, president of the asso
ciation; John M. Hovey, of Mars Hill,
Maine, secretary; Clarence H. Powers
of Maple Grove, Maine, members of a
so-called listing committee; Edward
H. Doyle New York agent, and If. W.
Sylvester, Boston agent. Sentence
was deferred. They blacklisted deal-
ers and boycotted persons who traded
with the blacklisted ones. Thev claim
ed immunity under the Clayton amend
ment on the ground that theirs was
an agricultural association, but Judge
Morton held that the Jury must decide
whether the measures adopted were
justified.
DENTIST KILLS SURGEON.
Says Operation Performed Seven
Years Ago Ruined His Life.
Chicago. Dr. J. M. Weinstraub,
formerly a surgeon in the Illinois Na
tional Guard, died of wounds Inflicted
by Dr. Arthur Mcl-arcn, a dentist, who
said an operation performed on him
even years ago by Dr. Weinstraub
had ruined his life. Dr. McLaren
burst into Dr. Welnrtraub's office and
shot the physician three times. He
told the police the surgical operation
had prevented his marriage.
AMERICAN CORPS TO BALKANS.
Ambulance Field Service Leaves Pari
For Salonkl Front.
Paris. The recently formed section
of the American umhulanco field perv-
Ice, which Is to serve with the French
nrmy In the r.alkans, left for the
Salonkl front. It consists of 30 ambu
lances with rrpalr cars, a kitchen car,
tent and other aceenor!ei for service
far from the liorpital ba;o. The sec
tion Is under command of Loverlng
Hill, of New York,
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All on Torpedoed Ships Had
Time to Leave.
NO MORE SHIPS SUNK
Submarine Able To 8ubmerg and Bob
Up 8o Quickly As To Give the
Impression There Were
More Than One.
Newport, R. I. The wholesale raid
on foreign shipping south of Nantucket
lightship Sunday was the work ot one
submarine, according to reports of
American naval officers. Rear Admiral
Albert Cleaves, commanding the torpedo-boat
destroyer flotilla, which did
such remarkably speedy rescue work,
Bald that the report of all bis officers
agreed that, to the best of their obser
vation, one raider only was concerned.
This boat presumably was the German
U-63, which called at Newport to mall
a letter to Ambassador Bernstorff, and
then put to sea, without taking on an
ounce of supplies, although she was 17
days from her base, according to the
statement of her officers.
Admiral Cleaves said he could easily
understand the positive statements of
the captain of the Nantucket lightship
and ot sailors of the torpedoed vessels
that more than one submersible was
concerned. The U-boat, be said, was
very fast and appeared to have been
handled cleverly. It was easy, he
pointed out, tor her to disappear on
one side of a ship and then show up
unexpectedly at another spot Doubt
less he believed she bad submerged
and reappeared often enough to mis
lead any but a keen professional ob
server and to oreate the Impression
that more than one sea terror was
operating.
This opinion would seem to be borne
out by the statement of many of the
refugees that the submarine bad more
business on hand than she could take
care of at once and was obliged to re
quest one steamer to wait her turn
while another was being put out of
commission. Lieutenant Commander
Miller, of the destroyer Erlccson, who
witnessed the destruction of the
Stephano, said he was positive that
only one submarine was in the vicinity
at the time.
Crew Still Missing.
The known lltt of the victims of
the U-boat's Sunday exploits remains
at six, notwithstanding reports from
the Nantucket lightship that three
other ships, the Identity of which could
not be learned, were sent to the bot
tom. There also was a persistent
rumor, without verification, that a Brit
ish cruiser, one of the allied patrol
fleet sent to the submarine zone, had
bocn attacked.
TOMATO VINE GROWS POTATOES.
Produces At the Same Time Eleven
Matured Tomatoes.
State College, Pa. JCleven fully
matured tomatoes and as many life
sized potatoes growing on a single
plant in the vegetable gardens of the
Pennsylvania State College marks the
advent of the newest of freak plants in
tho vegetable world. A potato was
planted and on the stulk produced
there was grafted a young tomato
shoot. The union was protected with
wax and bound with raffia. On the
vine developed many normal tomatoes.
Underground, at the game time, the
potatoes thrived as If they were grow
ing under the stimulus of their own
vine.'-
FARMERS GAIN 27.6 PER CENT.
Producer Of Food Greatly Benefited
By High Price.
Washington. Prices of farm prod
ucts continue to ri.se. Producers were
being paid 27.6 per cent, more on Oc
tober 1 than a year ago, the Depart
ment of Agriculture announced. That
level of prices increased 1.3 per cent
during September, compared with a
decrease of about 3 per cent, during
that month In the last eight years.
October 1, two ;"ears ago, prices
were 19 J per cent. lower than on that
date this year and the average for the
last eight years on October 1 was 23.8
per cent, lower.
SUICIDE LAID TO "FUNNIES."
Miner Thought They Were Ridiculing
Him, and Blow Self Up.
Chlsholm, Minn. Because, friends
say, he believed the "funny" sections
of Sunday newspapers were making
him a subject of ridicule and that per
sons were deriding him because of
resemblance to a funny page character,
Charles Marlla, 25 years old, a miner,
unmarried, committed suicide by blow.
Ing himself up with dynamite.
AMERICANS REPORTED SLAIN.
Two Said Te Have Been Killed In
Brussels During Air Fight.
Amsterdam. Two Americans were
killed in the streets of Brussels by
German shrapnel while the Teutons
were bombarding Britl.-h aeroplane.!,
the Echo de Beige reports. The
American Minister to Belgium Is mak
ing an investigation.
SCHOOLGIRL SLAIN IN CELLAR.
Strangled With Her Bookstrap After
Blng Atiaulted.
New York. Strangled with her own
bookstrap after being assaulted, Tlllle
Brown, an 11-year-old schoolgirl, was
found dead in the cellar of a Monroe
street tenement, on the lowor Fast
Side. The only clue the police have
was furnished by an uncle of the girl.
He reported that last Thursday he saw
a stranga man purchasing candy for
the child ft a street stand.
SUBMARINE
IUIII.
AWARD DESPITE
HOSPITAL CHANGE
Refusal Of Patient Te Be Operated
Upon Does Not Affect Com
pensation. Harrlsburg
Dependents were awarded com pen
satlon In decisions filed by Chairman
Harry A. Mackey, of the State Work
men's Compensation Board, in two
claims presenting unusual features. In
both, there were refusals to consent to
operations and removals from one hos
pltal to another where operations took
place. Death occurred in both In
stances.
In the case of Jorn and Annie Cser-
mack, Pittsburgh, against the H. C.
Frlck Coke Company, the claimants
were stepfather and mother and de
pendents of an employe of the com
pany. The mother refused to permit
an operation which was urged and bad
the man removed to another hospital
where an operation took place. It Is
held that the refusal to consent to an
operation does not amount to refusal
of medical or surgical aid and does not
defeat right of compensation, the de
cision saying In one part "there Is no
obligation on the part of the Injured
man to submit himself to an operation,
the result of which Is so problematical
thut his life Is at stake."
In the second case, Christina Sims
Windber vs. The Homer City Coal k
Coko Company, the deceased refused
an operation and insisted upon being
removed to another hospital, where a
bone was transplanted. The question
was whether the man died as a direct
result of the original Injury or because
of his refusal to be operated upon at
the first hospital. Mr. Mackey holds
that the claimant is entitled to com
pensation, saying that there Is "no evi
dence to show but that the same re
sult would have followed an operation
earlier at the first hospital.
Burn 100,000 Acres.
Forty-Bix counties of Pennsylvania
had forest fires this spring and while
the total area burned over was more
than 100,000 acres It was only a third
of the acreage damaged by fires In the
season of 1915, according to figures Is
sued by the State Forestry Depart
ment. The damage done by the fires
of this year is estimated at $170,000.
Blair, Luzerne and Potter counties
were the heaviest sufferers from the
fires, each having moro than 13,000
acres burned over. Twenty counties
lost over a thousand acres of timber
each and Columbia county, which had
but three fires, suffered a loss of 1,042
acres. Bucks lost only 23.
There were 505 fires reported, of
whlclt fifty-eight were Incendiary, 169
due to railroads, thirty-nine to brush
fires on windy days, thirty-nine due to
carclosa campers and thirty-seven due
to careless lumbering operations, while
five were ascribed to lightning. Thirty
two of the incendiary fires were In
Franklin county.
It cost over $12,000 to put out the
forest fires.
Poorest Milk Has Been Setting Price.
Discussing the cost of producing
milk by dairymen and the cost of dis
tribution by dealers, Professor Fred.
Rasmussen, head of the Dairy Hus
bandry Department at the State Col
lege, said that milk had until very
recently been paid for without regard
to quality, the cheapest and poorest
milk determining the price. The farm
er, he said, had not made use of col
lective bargaining .In the sale of milk,
and as an Individual had accepted what
price was offered.
"The fact that milk has always been
obtainable farther away from the mar
ket at less price that the difference In
the cost of transportation,'' said Pro
fessor RiLsmussen, "has made It dilfl
cult to get an increase In the price of
milk for the farmer. .The farmer, as a
class, is slow to change and slow to
organize.
"The fact that milk producers In the
EaRtern rart of the United States to
day are organizing to save their In
dustry from financial ruin Is the best
evidence of the economic pressure the
Industry is suffering. In the solving
of the crisis In the milk business to
day, many adjustments must be made'
To Liquidate Insurance Concerns.
The Dauphin County Court named
Insurance Commission J. Denny O'Nell
to take charge of affairs and liquidate
the Textile and Sterling Mutual Fire
Insurance Companies, ot Pottsvllle,
and the Central Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, of Lebanon. Thomas B.
Donaldson, of Philadelphia, will be
named as special doputy to handle the
business.
New Oleo License Record.
The Pennsylvania Department' of
Agriculture through the Dairy and
Food Bureau has issued 2,880 licenses
for the sale of oleomargarine against
2,819 issued during the entire year of
1915. The renovated butter licenses
have also shown an Increase of from
two for 1915 to four up to the present
time this year.
Approves Railroad Charter.
Governor Brumbaugh approved the
charter of tlie Amity vllle Railroad,
which will build a five-mile railroad
from Stowe to Amltyville. The capital
is $50,000 and the president is William
Abbott Wltraun, Reading.
Permits Trial Of Mayor,
Attorney Genernl Brown allowed the
writ In the application to test the cltl
zonshlp of Mayor Jonas Fischer, of
Wllllam.-iport. The case will be tried
In Lycoming county.
"Doctor, I don't feel well; my heart
is troubling me. I am afraid it's going
to be the end of me," declared Lafay
ette Lescher, of Windsor Castle, as he
walked into the office of Dr. R. W.'
Wolfe, at Port Carbon, An instant
later Loschor plunged forward and
died on tho floor of tho phjslcian's
office.
The Reading Iron Works of Danville
has given Its puddler- another In
crease of fifty cents a ton, bringing
their wages up to $7.60 a ton the !
highest ever paid here.
STATE NEWS
TOLD
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
H. J. Foldhege, of Allentown, super
intendent of the Egypt Silk Company,
has been arrested by a State Factory
Inspector, charged with employing
minors without certificates.
Warren Scholl, of Northampton, em
ployed at the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, will probably be blind in the
right eye, Into which flew a chip of
tteel while be was at work.
Mt. Penn borough has completed a
macadam roadway, five squares in
length, toward Black Baer, that will
rank aa among the finest roadbeds In
the State.
Prof. Harry W. Sharadin, who for
the past ten years filled the chair of
art and drawing at the Keystone State
Normal School, has accepted a similar
position with the Allentown High
School.
At the regular meeting of Marietta
Council the names of a number ot
streets In the borough were changed,
and in the near future signs giving
the names of streets and the houses
will be numbered, as Postmaster Orth
has been assured of free city delivery.
Chestnut blight has struck the chest
nut farm of Samuel Seybert, and with
his trees now reaching a good bearing
age, and the farm the largest culti
vated chestnut farm In the Berwick
section, Seybert stands to lose a for
tune, aft?r year of labor.
The Mountain House at Cressnn,
once a famous summer resort, was sold
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
to S. P. Cassldy, an Altoona contrac-.
tor, for $2,500. Only the building,
which Is four stories high and contains
216 rooms, is Involved in the sale, and
It must be removed at once.
F. H. Wright, formerly of the Illi
nois Steel Company, of South Chicago,
has been appointed superintendent of
the new twelve-Inch and elghteen-lnrb
structural mills of the Bethlehem Steel
Company, and W. M. Strawn has been
appointed assistant superintendent of
Nos. One, Two and Four Machine
Shops.
Because of the alarming spread ot
typhoid fever throughout Harrlsburg
and Dauphin county, two large corpor
ate employers of labor the Central
Iron & Steel Company and the Harrls
burg Pipe & ripe Bending Company
have offered to Inoculate their em
ployes free of charge with typhoid
vaccine.
That almonds and English walnuts
can be grown In these latitudes la
Mtown by a successful demonstration
Just made by John W. Kckert. On his
beautiful farm at Kckert be planted a
number of trees which this year bore
for the first time, and Mr. Eckert har
vested several bushels of both the al
monds and aalnuts, of the finest
quality.
As George King hunted In the thick
ets of Locust Mountain, near Mahanoy
City, his attention was called by his
barking hunting dogs to a body which
lny In the copse. It proved to be that)
of Miss Elizabeth Bronk, eighteen
years, who had been missing from her
home a week. By her side lay. an
empty bottle, .which had contained '
poison. Her Hps were horribly burned.
A Cumberland county Jury awarded
Gulseppl Promutico, an Italian, who
gave his home as Philadelphia, a ver
dict for $2,000 damages against the IL
C. Brooks Company, of Martlnsburg,
W. Va. Promutico was injured three
years ago during sewerage work In
Carlisle and lost a leg. Many of the
witnesses were recalled to Europe for
war service and depositions had to be
taken.
The manufacture of war munitions
for the French Government by the
Atlas Powder Company, resulted in a
suit for $15,000 damages being filed
against the company by Robert Leon
ard, of Pottsvillo, an employe. Some
time ago Leonard fell Into a tank of
acid and was terribly burned. He al
leges the deadly material was not prop-,
erly protected by the powder company,
and that his Injuries from the waist
down are of a serious nature.
Owing to the scarcity of coke and
the difficulty of gottlng it shipped to
the Allentown region, there Is grave
danger that the furnaces of the Le
high Valley will be compelled to sus
pend. The Crane Iron Works, at
Catasauqua are ready to put another
furnace Into blast, but have barely
enough fuel to keop in blast what 1b
already lighted. 'Unless relief comes
In the shape of coke the Thomas fur-;
nncee at- Hokendauqua will be com
pelled to Bhut dowa, and the other
plants in the vicinity are In the same
predicament. There Is strong demand
for the Iron they can produce.
In chasing his daughter In efforts
to chastise her, John Mallack, thirty
three years old, of Duncannon, fell and
broke his neck, dying in a few min
utes. Matlack spent the day In Har
rlsburg, returned home and started to
beat his wife. She Is in a serious con
dition, but will recover. His ten-year-old
daughter, Flora, endeavored to aid
her mother, when her father started
to chastise, she' eluded his grasp and
ran across a field. Matlack pursued
her and fell into a ditch. Matlack
was an employe of the Duncannon Iron
V Steel Company.